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FranciscoJ1618 t1_itoqti5 wrote

First of all, the future is not for arrogants. If you get replaced fast, and the only alternative you have is to work in a lower social status job, do it asap. You'll have to adapt quickly to new jobs and opportunities as they get more scarce, regardless if they imply an attack to your self steem. I.e. I'm a software developer. I know I'll be one of the firsts to be replaced so I'm ready to do Business Analysis in the best scenario or physical work or other bad paid stuff if needed in the worst one.

Unless you are willing to work right now as a developer, it doesn't make sense to learn coding at all. Currently there is a campaign or movement, at least in my country, that states that "everyone can and should learn to code". It's a lie. Not everybody can learn to code and today nobody should. Coding will be remembered as no longer taught things in school, such as logarithm tables books or calculating the n root of a number on a paper. Expect it to be 99% automated in 10 years unless you are willing to code operative systems or quantum computing but those will be paid terribly bad because of the supply of existing programmers. Maybe 5 years left for this kind of job as we know it right now.

I'm not sure about investing on AI related companies because the open source version of their systems will destroy their profit. And for some reason there's always been plenty of people willing to destroy companies profits by implementing open source systems. You can see that scenario is generalized for Desktop Software right now. Also analyzing OpenAI products there are free open source alternatives, very close in quality and with no restrictions of use, that will probably get better than OpenAI's as time passes.

CS degrees have never been good at keeping pace with the technology changes. Maybe if you have the opportunity to study only for 3 years and then study by yourself, then it could be a good idea. This also depends on your country. I know in the US you need a master degree to work in AI fields but it's different in Europe or LatinAmerica.

Maybe some advice from preppers sites could be useful, just in case. Each contry will implement their own solution to this and don't expect UBI to solve this, it will have the opposite effect because imagine that almost 100% of the population depends on the president's will to get food. It will be more similar to a dictatorship if we don't address it in another way distributing the power on the people.

Finally, read, a lot, about what other people expect about this issue so you'll have a more accurate view. But don't limit yourself just to reddit's comments. You could probably find books about this.

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fuckdonaldtrump7 t1_itp31ys wrote

That seems like an aggressive timeline for cpders to be completely obsolete. What evidence do you have for this happening that quickly?

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